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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emma John

Let’s be honest - faiths divide us. It can be hard to see the ties that bind

Francis Bacon’s Study for a Portrait of Pope Innocent at the Royal Academy.
Francis Bacon’s Study for a Portrait of Pope Innocent at the Royal Academy. Photograph: David Parry/Royal Academy of Arts

Religion: so awkward, right? One of the most uncomfortable topics that exists, probably, up there with Brexit and the Will Smith slap. The fact that 85% of the human population identify with some kind of faith group doesn’t make it any easier to discuss.

If you have a set of beliefs, however well-meaning and humane, they’re bound to set you on a course of divergence from those who hold alternate ones, or none at all, as our world has found to its repeated and tragic cost. Small wonder that some in the remaining 15% feel outright hostility to the very concept of faith.

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